Bland v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Jones v. State (2005), Miller v. State (1999)
34 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Knapp v. Arizona · Dingler v. State · Childs v. State · Renner v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The absolute right to severance exists only where offenses have been joined solely because they are of the same or similar character. [Cit.] Where, however, as here, joinder is based on a series of acts connected together, severance lies within the sound discretion of the trial court. [Cits.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether evidence of one offense would be admissible in a trial of the other if severance is granted is a relevant consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.